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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.